Document Caregiver Education for Physical or Occupational Therapy

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

Document Patient Education for Physical or Occupational Therapy

Open a patient record, and then in Encounter History, expand a case and select an encounter. Open the NTS Homepage template associated with the encounter, and then select a PT or OT visit type. Open the NTS Single Visit template, and then expand the Objective panel. Under Treatment, select Education. The Education template opens in the NTS PT Treatment Edu window. For patient education, enter a description under Education of the education provided by doing one of the following: Select Body Mechanics, Gait, or ADL as the education type, and then select a description in each field. Note: If you select the blank space at the top of the list, you can type an entry into the field. To enter custom descriptions that is not related to an education type, make sure that none of the Body Mechanics, Gait, or ADL options are selected, and then enter your descriptions in the fields. Optional: To clear the description from a field, select X next to the field. In Patient and/or Caregiver Education, ty

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

Treatment Section

The treatment grid shows therapies and education that you have documented for the patient. You can document therapies completed with the patient using any of the treatment templates in the left-hand list. The therapies documented on the templates are billable, with the exception of the Education template, which always shows a billable Total Time entry of zero. Treatment grid Treatment Template Editing Modes Treatment Template Enter Treatments/Activities for a Body Area Apply Option Settings to Multiple Grid Entries Update a Single Grid Entry Sort Order for Patient's Exercises You can sort the order of a patient's exercises during documentation on the NTS Treatment template. Delete Individual Treatments or Activities Clear the Entire Grid Allow Body Area Override Skill and To Gain Entering Time for Treatments You can enter the time for treatments below the respective grids. The application calculates the total time from the time entered in each grid of the template. Time and Done Alerts

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

Document Caregiver Education for Speech Therapy

You can document the speech therapy training the patient's caregiver receives in the patient's absence. The patient or representative must have given consent for this training. The caregiver training information appears on the Office Visit document. Open a patient record, and then in Encounter History, expand a case and select an encounter. Open the NTS Homepage template associated with the encounter, and then select an SLP visit type. Open the NTS Speech Single Visit template, and then expand the Objective panel. Under Treatment, select Education. The Education template opens in the Speech Education window. Select Patient consented to caregiver training. Select the appropriate checkbox that describes whether the caregiver training is for an individual or a group. For individual caregiver training, enter the total minutes of training time in Min, and then enter any therapist assistant-led training time in Asst. Asst appears only if the administrator configured the therapist assistant t

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

Document Patient Education for Speech Therapy

Open a patient record, and then in Encounter History, expand a case and select an encounter. Open the NTS Homepage template associated with the encounter, and then select an SLP visit type. Open the NTS Speech Single Visit template, and then expand the Objective panel. Under Treatment, select Education. The Speech Education template opens. Under Education, select a field to open a list of education descriptions, and then do one of the following: Select a description from the list to insert it into the field. Select Free Text to return to the field, and then enter a custom description of the education provided. Optional: Repeat the previous step to document additional patient education. In Patient and/or Caregiver Education, enter additional information related to the patient education or caregiver training. This information appears on the Plan of Care and Office Visit documents. Select Save & Close. The SLP Education row is added to the Treatment grid in the Objective panel. Parent top

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

Objective Panel

The Objective panel has sections for documenting Exams, Comments, Treatment and Notes. You can also view and enter vital signs for the visit and indicate if the visit qualifies for a re-evaluation charge. Objective panel Vital Signs Re-evaluation Charge Documenting Exams Re-Evaluation Checkbox Objective Comments Treatment Section Modalities Additional Modalities Template Work Conditioning Template Document Orthosis and DME Management Aquatherapy Template Document Patient Education for Physical or Occupational Therapy For physical and occupational therapy, you can document education the patient receives. Document Caregiver Education for Physical or Occupational Therapy For physical and occupational therapy, you can document the training a patient's caregiver receives. Testing/Other Template Document Remote Therapeutic Monitoring Review Documented Treatments Physiotec MedBridge HEP You can access the MedBridge HEP Application Programming Interface (API) from the Objective panel of the Si

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

Document and Review Patient Pain for a Physical or Occupational Therapy Visit

You can document the patient's pain levels for the current day, when they are at rest, and when they are active. You can also review the pain history within the case to assess the patient's pain levels over time. Open a patient record, and then in Encounter History, expand a case and select an encounter. Open the NTS Single Visit template, and then expand the Subjective panel. Enter the pain levels in Today, At Rest, and During Activity. Optional: To review the patient's pain levels over time within the case, select the Pain link. The Pain History template opens with the pain details of all the encounters related to the case. To document the pain experienced during the patient's daily functions, select Function in Subjective Grid to open the Function template. Optional: To view historical pain levels from the Function template, select the Previous Pain Grid link. The Previous Pain Grid template opens with pain data from previous versions. You cannot modify these pain values. New pain l

Document Caregiver Education for Physical or Occupational Therapy

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Document Patient Education for Physical or Occupational Therapy

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Document Caregiver Education for Speech Therapy

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Document and Review Patient Pain for a Physical or Occupational Therapy Visit

Document Caregiver Education for Physical or Occupational Therapy

Document Patient Education for Physical or Occupational Therapy

Treatment Section

Document Caregiver Education for Speech Therapy

Document Patient Education for Speech Therapy

Objective Panel

Document and Review Patient Pain for a Physical or Occupational Therapy Visit